Category Archives: Meetings

August Meeting Weds 28th – SFD Preparation

Just a quick note to say our August meeting will be on Wednesday night, usual place the Courtyard in Hereford on the mezzanine floor.

The meeting will start at 7:30pm as usual.

Items for discussion amongst the usual chat,

* Software Freedom Day 21st September – Detailed Preparations – Still Lots to Do

* We need to get the posters finally designed, printed and put up – I can get them printed, but we will need volunteers to distribute and posted countywide and beyond, * Other PR – Social Media, Mentions in local press, radio, notes so far on PP etc. * Goodies – I believe we’re getting a full set of goodies from Linux Format magazine with some Raspberry Pi goodies, plus the usual bag of things- posters, banner, balloons, stickers etc to give away from the SFD organisers (Thanks Pete) * Finalisation of Talks/Demos/Presentations – Anyone else who wants to do a spot please let us know either here or on PP. * The venue is booked – and we have a couple of presentations confirmed or nearly confirmed.

The Courtyard has free wifi and serves lovely coffees, and there is level (and/or lifts) access to all public areas of the building. You can find directions to The Courtyard, Edgar Street, Hereford, HR4 9JR.

The Courtyard has pay and display parking adjacent and free parking a short walk away.

It would be great to see any of the recent signups to the group, or anyone who hasn’t been for a while. The Courtyard makes a very nice venue too.

June 2013 – Special Meeting – Open Street Map Presentation

Tue, 18/06/2013 – 21:58 — julianr

“Getting Started with OpenStreetMap”

We have a special meeting in June with a special presentation from Ben Proctor on Open Street Map. We have booked a meeting room at St John’s Ambulance, Widemarsh St, Hereford HR4 9HN on Tuesday 25th June 2013 at starting 7.30pm with a 9pm finish. Please note as we have had to hire the room there will be a small charge to attend this event. We hope to get as many old and new members and newcomers along to this exciting event.

OpenStreetMap is sometimes called Wikipedia for maps. It is a vast, remarkably accurate and powerful database of global mapping information provided by volunteers and free for anyone to use.

I hope to give you a quick overview of how it works. How easy it is to edit. Why you would bother to edit it and ways in which the maps have been and will continue to be useful. I hope it will be fairly practical and if people bring laptops they should be able to get editing the map straight away.

My hope is that you’ll get a sense of how easy it is to get started and to make use of the mapping data. This is an overview and hopefully some pointers to get you started. However if you have experience using OpenStreetMap it would be great to have you there to share your experience.

If we have time maybe we can touch on some open source GIS tools and other open mapping projects like Ushahidi (which is a tool I’ve used for a few projects).

I am aware that some LUGs have embraced open mapping and that in some areas pub crawls are combined with mapping in a useful and enjoyable way. Maybe some people will want to take this further. No pressure.

You may want to sign up for an OpenStreetMap account now. You never know when you’ll need it

Special note for Linux folk:

OpenStreetMap is an open data project and the tools to edit it are available for many OS’s. If you want to try some editing on the night you’ll need a browser that is comfortable running lots of funky javascript and you’ll need an up to date java environment installed. If you fancy you can install JOSM. There is an Ubuntu repository.

Tue, 26/02/2013 – 00:15 — julianr

We will be meeting in the Courtyard Theatre, in Hereford on the Mezzanine Floor again this month.

The meeting will start at 7:30pm as usual. The meeting will be an open meeting as my plans to arrange a talk fell through unfortunately 🙁 Hopefully we’ll get a talk/demo lined up for next month. Everyone is welcome including our new recent members. (don’t worry we don’t bite 😉 )

The Courtyard has free wifi and serves lovely coffees, and there is level (and/or lifts) access to all public areas of the building. You can find directions to The Courtyard, Edgar Street, Hereford, HR4 9JR.

The Courtyard has pay and display parking adjacent and free parking a short walk away.

It would be great to see any of the recent signups to the group, or anyone who hasn’t been for a while. The Courtyard makes a very nice venue too.

March HLUG Meeting – Weds 27th March

We will be meeting in the Courtyard Theatre, in Hereford on the Mezzanine Floor again this month.

The meeting will start at 7:30pm as usual. The meeting will be an open meeting but will also consist of discussions on:-

* New meeting venue suitable for Workshop style events for the LUG * Update on new website and change in HLUG hosting currently taking place. We are keen to know what members want from the new website and what they also want to put in.

The Courtyard has free wifi and serves lovely coffees, and there is level (and/or lifts) access to all public areas of the building. You can find directions to The Courtyard, Edgar Street, Hereford, HR4 9JR.

The Courtyard has pay and display parking adjacent and free parking a short walk away.

It would be great to see any of the recent signups to the group, or anyone who hasn’t been for a while. The Courtyard makes a very nice venue too.

September Meeting – Weds 26th Sept

After one of our most successful events in the history of HLUG, ie Software Freedom Day a few weeks back, we’re back to the normal monthly meeting schedule..

For our September meeting we will be holding a bit of a follow up to SFD, effectively an evening for those new to Linux and/or open source to help them with their installs or software / hardware configuration. So please any new members please come along if you need any help with Linux ..

We will be meeting as usual on the mezzanine floor at the Courtyard in Hereford at 7pm, a slightly earlier start.

The Courtyard has free wifi and serves lovely coffees, and there is level access to all public areas of the building. You can find directions to The Courtyard, Edgar Street, Hereford, HR4 9JR here The Courtyard has pay and display parking adjacent and free parking a short walk away.

It would be great to see any of the recent signups to the group, or anyone who hasn’t been for a while. The Courtyard makes a very nice venue too.